Cotton Malone
St. Martin's Paperbacks
January 2017
On Sale: January 3, 2017
576 pages ISBN: 1250058457 EAN: 9781250058454 Kindle: B0140MQTP8 Mass Market Paperback / e-Book (reprint) Add to Wish List
What happens if both the president and
vice-president-elect die before taking the oath of office?
The answer is far from certain—in fact, what follows would
be nothing short of total political chaos.
Shot down over Siberia, ex-Justice Department agent Cotton
Malone is forced into a fight for survival against Aleksandr
Zorin, a man whose loyalty to the former Soviet Union has
festered for decades into an intense hatred of the United
States.
Before escaping, Malone learns that Zorin and another ex-KGB
officer, this one a sleeper still embedded in the West, are
headed overseas to Washington D.C. Noon on January
20th—Inauguration Day—is only hours away. A flaw in the
Constitution, and an even more flawed presidential
succession act, have opened the door to disaster and Zorin
intends to exploit both weaknesses to their fullest.
Armed with a weapon leftover from the Cold War, one long
thought to be just a myth, Zorin plans to attack. He’s aided
by a shocking secret hidden in the archives of America’s
oldest fraternal organization—the Society of Cincinnati—a
group that once lent out its military savvy to presidents,
including helping to formulate three invasion plans of what
was intended to be America’s 14th colony—Canada.
In a race against the clock that starts in the frozen
extremes of Russia and ultimately ends at the White House
itself, Malone must not only battle Zorin, he must also
confront a crippling fear that he’s long denied, but which
now jeopardizes everything. Steve Berry’s trademark mix of
history and speculation is all here in this provocative new
thriller.
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